Recording an in-person meeting
For a meeting in a room, the mobile app is the recorder. It keeps running when you lock the phone or switch apps, and uploads when you stop.
Phased rollout agreed for October.
It uploads and writes itself up
- Tap Record
- It keeps going with the screen locked
- Stop when you are done
- It uploads and writes itself up
Starting
Open the Metir app and tap Record
The first time, allow access to the microphone.Put the phone down where it can hear the room
Somewhere central beats somewhere convenient.Carry on with the meeting
You do not need to keep the app in front of you.
It keeps running
Locking the screen or switching to another app does not stop the recording.
No signal
You can record without a connection. With no signal, tapping Record skips the meeting form and starts straight away on a meeting named for the date and time. It becomes a normal meeting, notes and all, once your phone is back online. You can rename it afterwards.
Stopping and uploading
Press stop and it uploads. On a poor connection, or none, the recording is saved on your phone and uploads by itself as soon as the connection is back, even if you have left the app. Chat home shows how many recordings are waiting, and tells you when they have gone up.
Pending recordings
My Recordings lists the audio kept on your phone, and says for each one whether it has uploaded or will upload when you are back online, so nothing disappears quietly. A copy that has uploaded is removed from your phone after 14 days; a recording that never uploaded is only ever removed by you. Browser recordings that have not uploaded remain on that browser under Unsent recordings. After upload, a recording paused for credits appears under Waiting to transcribe instead.